High School Students in MAGA Hats Harassed and Mocked Native Americans

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  1. FTFaculty

    FTFaculty Well-Known Member

    Why do keep trolling her, Steve? For sport? Just wondering. It's entertaining and all, but come on, man!
     
  2. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    That's why one shouldn't jump to conclusions based on a short video clip that lacks any context.
     
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  3. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    This is just a taste of what Hatred looks like:

    And ironically, these are the self-styled virtuous and tolerant ones, the ones supposedly in favor of free-speech and free-expression... the self-proclaimed liberals.

    The always sane, reasonable and level-headed Kathy Griffin. (What is it about comedians that they are usually more than a little crazy?)

    https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1086927762634399744

    Trevor Noah on Comedy Central's The Daily Show says "everyone wants to punch that kid"

    A Walt Disney producer (Beauty and the Beast) fantasized about shoving the kids in a wood-chipper, MAGA hats first, in a now deleted tweet preserved by Sarah Palin. To his credit, he's since apologized for posting it. (Or maybe he feared it would hurt his career.) His twitter account is still active.

    https://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/1087416956083351552/photo/1

    This idiot is a professor at UC Riverside.

    https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1086806539552284672

    This little Canadian wonder says that she writes for the Guardian and the Huffington Post.

    https://twitter.com/karengeier/status/1087030484738207747

    This guy calls himself a "reporter" and a "writer" and apparently works for a video game publication.

    https://twitter.com/JeffGrubb/status/1086707229137485825

    An LA DJ posted to twitter: ""LOCK THE KIDS IN THE SCHOOL AND BURN THAT BITCH TO THE GROUND!" in a now-deleted tweet. He was reportedly trying to set up a Go-fund-me account to pay $1000 to anyone who punched one of the kids "right in the fucking mouth".

    But his twitter account is still active. Despite Solicitation of a Crime of Violence being a federal crime under 18 USC 373, a felony:

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373

    The "hip-hop editor" for something called Uproxx told his twitter readers to "punch the little mfs in the face!" in a now deleted tweet. His twitter account is still active.

    and on and on...
     
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  4. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    Here's something interesting

    https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/22/twitter-suspends-account-covington/

    According to this account...

    CNN Business seems to have been the first to pick up on the fact that the carefully truncated video of the Covington kids and Phillips first appeared on a twitter account called @2020fight, supposedly belonging to an LA school teacher named Talia. But it turns out that Talia's photo on her twitter page was actually that of a blogger in Brazil. The page produced a suspicious number of tweets (averaging 130/day) and had a suspicious 40,000 followers. Twitter has shut the account down, labeling it fake.

    Even more suspicious was how a whole network of anonymous twitter accounts amplified @2020fight's constructed anti-MAGA narrative. The video was retweeted more than 14,400 times and had more than 2.5 million views in just a matter of hours. Journalists and all manner of activists picked up on it, never bothered to vet it until after the fact because it so perfectly fit their prejudices and preconceptions, and the whole thing was off and rolling, a beautiful little piece of fake news designed to further divide the American people (if 'American people' has any meaning any longer).

    According to Molly McKew of Wired, "This is the new landscape: where bad actors monitor us and appropriate content that fits their needs. They know how to get it where they need to go so it amplifies naturally. And at this point, we are all conditioned to react and engage or deny in specific ways. And we all did."

    The circumstantial evidence does suggest that somebody fucked with us, whether foreign or domestic. Somebody appears to have crafted a carefully edited video seemingly designed to push SJWs emotional buttons. And somebody seems to have had a nice little network of (fake?) twitter accounts all ready to spread and amplify the message.

    But of course it wouldn't have worked if the "journalists" had actually displayed a little of their vaunted professionalism and didn't just embrace and run with the latest social media sensation because it fit their own desired social narrative.
     
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  5. Phdtobe

    Phdtobe Well-Known Member

    My guess if the
    A good summation of what took place. Those children should receive an apology especially from the msm. They show grace under pressure. I am a huge defender of Indigenous rights but on this occasion it was the students who were the victims. It may not effective in getting ones message accross wearing the maga hats. The maga hats are a distraction to civil discourse. There is vicious war of ideology in America. Civil discourse is degrading exponentially.
     
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  6. FTFaculty

    FTFaculty Well-Known Member

    These are just some sick, twisted people. Punks, mental midgets, not worthy of three seconds of consideration.
     
  7. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    The same Kathy Griffin who whined and cried when her stunt of holding up a facsimile of President Trump’s bloody head backfired spectacularly.

    God, I hate hypocrites....
     
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  8. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    I don't think anyone is completely innocent in the video, but it's clear at this point that the adults acted worse than the children and that the children, while still pretty douchey, were much better in that situation than most of us would have been at that age.

    The way the media covered this story is shameful, and it's nice that this is one of those few times that several of the networks have actually admitted that they were wrong. However, this is just one of many dozen times over the past 3 or so years where the public were led to believe something that was quickly proven false and this is only a rare exception in that the actual full truth has come out. Literally every single day CNN, Huffington Post and Washinton Post (not to mention the especially despicable Buzzfeed and Vox) flood news feeds with their egregiously misleading headlines, poorly written articles and cherry picked or misrepresented facts. That's just the state of "news" in our day and age and it probably won't change any time soon.

    What I find most sickening here, yes even worse than how this story was treated by professional news organizations, is the blatant load of flat out lies that Nathan Phillips gave to the press about what went down. He's a GROWN MAN who got in the face of some teenagers, antagonized them and then lied through his teeth to fuel public rage against them. That rage included a complely different kid who just so happened to look like the teen smirking in the video was harassed and sent death threats. Each of the harassers is responsible for their own actions, but it is also absolutely reprehensible to send out the kind of malicious falsehoods that puts people in danger, no matter how much you don't like those people.
     
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